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a strong grip
on design and idea...

- It is important for us that furnipart cooperates with a range of external designers, combined with our own ideas for new types of furniturehandles, both Lars Ole Hansen (LOH), chairman & founder and Rasmus Byriel (RB), ceo & partner commented in an interview.
RB: We need innovation, variation and a lot of different eyes on the design process of new handles.

- All in all, creating and designing a new handle is not always as easy as it looks; the possibilities of variation being limited, there is a natural boundary for how many different handles one single person can come up with over time. Also, compared with ourselves, an industrial designer will be able to go all the way as regards dimensions, forming and shaping as well as other technical questions. A long process
from idea to finished product, which we prefer to leave to the experts.

”..a typical furnipart handle has a stringent design, a distinct design profile and is never seen before on the market”

LOH: Even though our Far-Eastern production partners do have state-of-art engineering departments, it is necessary that our 
designers provide them with the details.
RB: It is also essential that our designers 
give our production partners a critical sparring; scrutinising the models and different 
solutions they come up with. Our designers 
are also different from each other; some 
of them are more orientated towards form 
and shape while others are much more into 
technical details and possible solutions. 
This is the reason why Adam Laws (red.: 
Australian designer) has been in charge of 
our new development DUO - he has a very 
well-defined technical insight, compared 
to some of our other designers, who are 
primarily shapers and formers.
LOH: Part of furnipart’s image is that we 
work close together with some of the 
renown designers. In the beginning, we 
mostly cooperated with Danish designers 
but now we cooperate more and more 
with international designers too. Today, the 
industrial designers approach us unsolicited with their proposals. Of course we are 
grateful for this and we see it as a sign and as 
an acknowledgement for having reached a 
very high level of design quality and product
visibility. This is a clear defined objective for 
furnipart.
RB: For us, it is important to create a certain 
port-folio of handles from each designer, 
so that they each can achieve reasonable 
earnings on the handles they develop and 
design for us. A set-up with for instance 30 
different designers would not make sense, 
while an intensive cooperation with 6-7 designers will give each of them better revenue and at the same time give us a more 
homogenous range. In choosing designers, 
we pay high attention to references and 
enthusiasm. Some designers are very well 
prepared; they have more or less already 
finished the handle when they visit us. An 
example is Steve McGugan, a new designer name in the furnipart family. He is American and has worked for Bang&Olufsen, 
Novo Nordisk, Georg Jensen and several 
telephone companies. He presented 15 
almost finished handles to me, with prototypes, lacquered and mounted on small 
displays. This appeared convincing and 
tempted us to start 4 new tools for some 
of his proposals.

It is easy to recognize good design, when you see it. Touch it. Experience it… the contours, materials, the finish and the form. You feel it by intuition - a strong feeling, coming to you naturally. The senses are all on alert. furnipart spends a lot of time and thoughts on creating the right handle. On making the design match the area it will be mounted on. On making it pleasant for the hand that touches it. Although micro in dimensional size, on the macro level the handle creates a common denominator as to visual functionality. It demands knowledge, skills and insight. furnipart calls it ”The Star On Your Furniture”. Design created by innovative and skilled craftsmen and designers.